After a blush-inducing day of testimony and a failed attempt by prosecutors to call additional accusers to the stand, jurors began deliberating Friday in the patient sexual assault trial of Dr. Calvin Day.

State District Judge Ron Rangel sent the group home without yet having reached a verdict after an hour and 45 minutes of deliberations that started just as the courthouse was closing for the day.

The jury will resume deliberations Monday.

The once-prominent San Antonio dermatologist, 61, could face up to 20 years in prison if the group finds him guilty of the August 2010 assault of a then-46-year-old Botox patient in a secluded area of his office known as the “bat cave.”

Defense attorneys Jay Norton and Alan Brown referred to the patient during closing arguments as a “Botox queen” who, despite an acting background, couldn't keep her story straight during five days of testimony.

Phone records show that in the time immediately after the attack was alleged to have occurred, the woman made about 20 calls, including one to her bank to transfer funds, “while she's supposed to be in this state of distress,” Norton said.

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The defense also allowed some of the behind-the-scenes tension with prosecutors — which started last week with hotly disputed accusations that District Attorney Susan Reed is the defendant's “jilted lover” — to bubble up in front of the jury for the first time.

“I have never seen them try harder, more viciously ... to convict someone with less evidence and more bull,” Brown said.

But the woman has nothing to gain from making something like this up, responded Catherine Babbitt, chief of the district attorney's family justice unit.

“She's not after money. She's not after fame. She's not after glory,” Babbitt argued. “For three years, this woman has wanted for the system to take it's course. ... They want you to brand her a liar, but they can't give you a reason to do that.”

It is the general policy of the San Antonio Express-News not to name sexual assault accusers.

In addition to the current trial, Day has an additional sexual assault charge pending regarding another patient. Prosecutors have alleged in court documents that 13 other women — a mix of former patients and employees — have made allegations of sexual misconduct.

Prosecutors achieved a strategic victory Friday when they convinced the judge to allow three of the additional accusers to testify. That advantage was quickly squandered, however, when they revealed to the judge that two of the accusers were still out of state and the other — recovering from major back surgery and wheelchair bound — was nowhere near the courthouse.

Rangel gave prosecutors 30 minutes to bring the women to the courtroom. When even the local witness didn't show up after an hour, he ordered the attorneys to move on. Both sides immediately rested.

“This is in no way a surprise,” Rangel said of the scheduling goof. “I'm worried about taxpayer dollars. I'm worried about efficiency.”

Prosecutor Kirsta Melton blamed the defense for misleading them regarding how many witnesses they would put on.

“The interest of justice trumps time and efficiency,” she argued.

The one new witness who did get to testify Friday was longtime Day employee Christine Lewis, who said she has also been his mistress for the past 15 years. As a result, the risqué subject matter of Day's genitals dominated the day.

Lewis testified that Day had erectile dysfunction that would have prevented a “spontaneous erection” as the accuser described.